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> [“Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/like-all-religious-people-christians-repress-remember-and-retell/)

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## More by Stephen Prothero

> [At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/at-least-in-popular-parlance-what-makes-religious-folks-religious/)

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> [“One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/one-of-history-s-most-dangerous-games-begins-with-dividing-the-world/)

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> [Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/both-tolerance-and-respect-are-empty-virtues-until-we-actually/)

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> [“If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit as opposed to matter, the Creator as opposed to the created,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/if-religion-is-about-the-sacred-as-opposed-to-the-profane-the-spirit/)

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> [“Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/like-all-religious-people-christians-repress-remember-and-retell/)

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> [Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/almost-all-religions-provide-opportunities-for-human-beings-to/)

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> [At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/at-least-since-the-first-petals-of-the-counterculture-bloomed-across/)

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> [“True, (Jefferson's) rational religion ran in rivulets outside the American mainstream, but heterodoxy is faith of a different form and, like orthodoxy, should be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/true-jefferson-s-rational-religion-ran-in-rivulets-outside-the/)

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> [“Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so-called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair-minded Christians difficult questions about Christianity's own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/widespread-criticisms-of-jihad-in-islam-and-the-so-called-sword/)

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> [“On the ethics of war the Quran and the New Testament are worlds apart. Whereas Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/on-the-ethics-of-war-the-quran-and-the-new-testament-are-worlds-apart/)

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> [Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/pretending-that-the-world-s-religions-are-the-same-does-not-make-our/)

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> [“Spirituality, in short, is religion stripped down to its experiential dimension. More than do-it-yourself religion, spirituality is do-without-religion, a form of faith that denies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/spirituality-in-short-is-religion-stripped-down-to-its-experiential/)

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